Vocabulary

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Book I (Book 1)
  • wiles: tricks
  • dicing: gambling or throwing dice
  • marauding: plundering or attacking
  • pensive: consumed by thought, brooding

Book V (Book 5)
  • grotto: cave-like summer house
  • citadel: fortress, city
  • ambrosia: the food of the gods
  • halyard: a rope for raising and lowering a sail
  • skulduggery: sneaky, dishonest behavior
  • tutelary: guardian or protective

Book IX (Book 9)
  • combers: long curling waves
  • promontory: a raised geological formation, cliff, headland, or cape
  • adze: an edged tool used to cut and shape wood
  • formidable: extremely impressive in strength or excellence

Book X (Book 10)
  • Zephyr: the Greek god of the west, a warm westerly wind
  • furrows: grooves in the earth made by plows
  • mandrake: a plant whose root resembles a human figure and is often used in witchcraft
  • sheathed: enclosed in a protective covering
  • pyre: wood heaped for burning a dead body as a funeral rite

Book XI (Book 11)
  • taut: pulled or drawn tight
  • stupefied: mentally confused, bewildered
  • guile: the use of tricks to deceive
  • stalwart: hardy, sturdy, strong, robust

Book XII (Book 12)
  • pored: directed one’s attention to something, concentrated on something
  • wanton: unmotivated, careless
  • gulled: made a fool of
  • sulfurous: stifling, hot, oppressive, yellowish, bad-smelling

Book XVI (Book 16)
  • fawned: showed submission or exhibited affection
  • incites: provokes, stirs up, instigates, sets off
  • squires: a knight’s attendants
  • leagued: joined or worked with

Book XVII (Book 17)
  • grub: ask for and get for free
  • suckling: a young mammal that has not been weaned
  • bludgeon: strike with a club
  • vaunts: self-praises, boasts

Book XXI (Book 21)
  • dauntless: brave, fearless, intrepid
  • brood: the offspring of an animal, a group of animals
  • eminent: distinguished, important, superior
  • brouhaha: an uproar, hubbub, or disturbance
  • evicted: expelled from one’s home or property

Book XXII (Book 22)
  • clattering: a loud rattling sound of hard things struck together
  • resistless: overpowering, unrelenting
  • fanfaronades: groundless boasts or braggings
  • exult: feel extreme happiness

Book XXIII (Book 23)
  • jubilant: rejoicing with delight
  • insolence: a rude, disrespectful act
  • Hades: the god of the underworld
  • winnowing: separating wheat from chaff